But when they recognized that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” for about two hours.

But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, put his arms around him, and said, “Do not be distressed, for he is still alive!”

They did not find me arguing with anyone or stirring up a crowd in the temple courts or in the synagogues or throughout the city,

other than this one thing I shouted out while I stood before them: ‘I am on trial before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.’”

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.)

For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?